Maggie Nicols (or Nichols, as she originally spelled her name as a performer) (born 24 February 1948) is a Scottish free-jazz and improvising vocalist, dancer, and performer. Over her career she has recorded as Maggie Nicols & Peter Nu, and recorded with, or been a member of, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Centipede, Ken Hyder's Talisker, Les Diaboliques, and many others. Nicols left school at the age of 15 and started to work as a dancer at the Windmill Theatre.